Some good articles in the westword today

[cobcoop]

Marijuana grow bust in Adams County: Justifiable raid or police abuse?

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/06/marijuana_grow_bust_in_adams_c.php

At this point, things get fuzzy. Miller says representatives of the Adams County Sheriff's Office arrived to investigate the landlord's theft and embezzlement claims at about the same time as the North Metro Drug Task Force showed up to look into the report about marijuana. Hence, she's not sure which body was represented by an officer who demanded entry into her apartment. But Miller insists that she didn't give permission for the cops to enter, only to have one of them tell her they'd kick down the door and arrest her if she didn't acquiesce.
The plants weren't tough to find, Miller allows, but a vigorous search continued after they were located. "They were just completely destroying my apartment," she says. "They threw my makeup in the sink, they were stepping on things, throwing things on the kitchen counter. They even threw some of my clothes in the toilet. I was getting really upset at seeing all my stuff being trashed and asked them to stop destroying things. And one of the cops said if I kept asking them to stop, they'd throw me to the ground, put a foot in the middle of my back, and arrest me."

And now for something completely different: Commander Jerry Peters's take, based on the task force's report on the incident.
"When the North Metro Task Force detectives arrived," he says, "our detectives spoke to Ms. Miller, who granted verbal permission to search her house to look at the plants.
"The detectives did search the entire apartment," Peters goes on, "but they didn't disturb anything, so what she's alleging is false. What they found there -- and they took pictures to illustrate this -- was that she'd destroyed her own apartment to further her grow by putting ventilation systems through wiring, through doors, knocked holes out with hammers."
Peters also disputes any suggestion that his officers threatened Miller with arrest: "She told them she was pregnant, and because she was so cooperative, they chose not to take her to jail. Instead, they released her on a written custody, which was the appropriate thing to do."

Medical marijuana community fights health department's PTSD policy

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/06/medical_marijuana_community_fi.php

In March, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment actively lobbied against an amendment to HB 1284, the just-signed bill to regulate the MMJ industry, that would have added PTSD to the list of conditions medical marijuana has been approved to treat. The amendment, sponsored by Representative Sal Pace, was subsequently defeated, and that's frustrating to Dan Pope, Sensible Colorado's volunteer patient outreach coordinator. "I see it as callous behavior on the part of Dr. Ned Calonge," Colorado's chief medical officer, who weighed in on medical marijuana in a December interview accessible here.

This one is really sad, there was a great story on NPR the other day about how these service folks are getting shafted left and right by veteran services. Guys are coming back with serious brain problems, and being given asprin as their only treatment. If you thought Walter Reed was bad, this shit is going to eclipse that as more of these guys/gals come back home.

 

[SGMeds]

C3 Initiatives is in the final stages to begin a 150 bed Vet's assisted living center... here, locally.

This is a quality organization to support... esp for adding PTSD to the list of medically nec conditions.


Just pisses you off, deep down...

 

[Greenmopho]

Somehow, I more believe her story....